Jane Doe Guide and Best Builds for Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ)

The information posted here is still subject to change.

Jane Doe is an S-Rank Physical Anomaly Agent in Zenless Zone Zero. She is the second Physical Anomaly Agent after Piper Wheel, and only the second S-Rank Anomaly Agent next to Grace Howard. Her playstyle is centered around her Passion state that she can enter under certain circumstances, which greatly enhances her Anomaly Buildup Rate and damage.

Jane Doe's faction is part of the Criminal Investigation Special Response Team faction, alongside Zhu Yuan, Qingyi, and Seth Lowell.

"Oh, Frank... He's definitely a one-kind-of a gentleman. Even the way he eats instant noodles is elegant."" — Wealthy Girl who is reluctant to undergo questioning

"Anne is our top employee! She volunteers to take the night shifts that everyone dreads." — Convenience Store Owner who willingly accepts questioning
"We have hundreds of Kellys here. Look, I'm in the middle of something. So if you're looking for someone, come find them yourself." — Voice message on a Rookie Patrol Officer's cellphone
"Hey officer, are you looking for me?" — The person... standing in front of the Rookie Patrol Officer who calls herself "Emma".

Jane Doe will be available as a rate-up character on the second Exclusive Channel in Patch 1.1. She can not be pulled from the Stable Channel or the Bangboo Channel.

If you want to spend on Jane Doe, we recommend getting her signature weapon after acquiring Jane, before pulling for additional copies. Both her M1 and M2 add sizeable amounts of damage, with further copies not being as good.

Strengths

• High sustained damage output that does not rely on burst-windows.
• Anomaly Damage that can crit.
• Future proof for any Anoamly Disorder team, will become even stronger in the future.
• Very powerful Mindscape copies 1 and 2.

Weaknesses

• Limited F2P options for W-Engine that are significantly worse than her signature.
• Requires high field up-time.
• Relies heavily on dodging and evading enemy attacks.

As an Anomaly character, Jane does not play around Stun windows on enemy nearly as much as many of the other main DPS do. Instead she has her own windows of heavily increase damage through her Passion state. Once triggered, it greatly enhances your damage, allowing you to make use of her Enhanced Attack Salchow Jump, and you will want to extend this state with perfect dodges, uses of her Special Attack.

The Dodge Counter in her Passion state is incredibly powerful, and you should make use of this instead of using your Assist charges to parry. However, using a with Jane will allow her to immediately enter the Passion state with a maximum amount of Passion Stream.

In order to optimize her use, you will want to avoid triggering a Stun with Jane herself, especially on smaller enemies, and instead switch off to another character, ideally a Stun one, to start off the Chain Attack. You can then use Jane as the last hit in your Chain Attack, and immediately unleash her full power in her buffed state against a stunned enemies that takes significantly more damage.

As with any Anomaly character, her Physical DMG Anomaly will only trigger if she is on the field. If you cast her Special Attack, and then immediately swap her for another one of your Agents, you can build up the Physical Anomaly bar without actually triggering the hit. This allows you to then build up Anomaly with another character, switch back to Jane immediately after, for an instant Anomaly Disorder trigger.

Jane Doe's best W-Engine is her signature weapon, and the second best option is not even close. Unfortunately, Grace's S-Rank Engine isn't all that useful to her either, so if you do not pull for her signature, then you have to play one of the A-Rank alternatives. The difference in damage will be somewhere around 20%, so it is recommended pulling the W-Engine over a second copy of Jane Doe, first, if you decide to go all in on spending for her.

Her best Drive Disc set is a combination of 4-piece Fanged Metal, and 2-piece Freedom Blues. As long as you can get a reasonable amount of Anomaly Proficiency, the remaining stats don't matter too much, as you will be getting a big chunk of ATK from her AP scaling.

Except for her Chain Attack, all her Skills grant somewhat even damage across the board, so there is no need to hyper-focus on one or two of them to maximize DPS.

Jane Doe currently has a lot of team building options. Seth Lowell and Lucy are two easily accessible options, since you likely have one or more multiple copies of Seth from pulling Jane, while hopefully having at least one copy of Lucy.

Her best team at the moment is with Burnice White and Lucy, as this allows her to regularly trigger Disorders from Burnice's Burn Anomaly. Since Jane wants a lot of field uptime, and Burnice does not need to be on the field for more than just a few seconds or her Ultimate, the two pair together incredibly well, while Lucy provides a large ATK boost to both characters that is easy to maintain, especially if Lucy is at M6.

Grace Howard, Alexandrina Sebastiane, Qingyi and Seth Lowell all work in some combination to apply Electric Anomaly, giving you high Disorder damage every time it procs, while also providing a decent amount of stun. Rina comps are the hardest to play due to having to animation swap cancel out of her abilities regularly in order to not lose too much uptime. Jane Doe does require quite a lot of field uptime, after all.